How do we typically print things, we convert them to strings.

我们一般是怎么显示对象的呢？,对，把它们转换为字符串。

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But there's an important thing going on here, if I in fact wanted to combine those into a string I should have told the machine to do that, and I can do that, by explicitly saying, take that, which is a number, then add it to that string.

但是这里有个很重要的事情，实际上想要把这些加到一个字符串里面去,我应该告诉计算机去做这个，我应该这么做，通过明确的输入，也就是把这个对象，一个数字，然后把它加到一个字符串里面去。

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So STR, which I just typed up there, takes in parens, some input, and it converts it into a string, so that now I can use that John where I was expecting a string. John.

因此STR，也就是，我刚刚输入的，然后把这个输入变更为一个字符串，因此现在我就能,在需要用字符串的地方使用这个对象了。

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Now, you might have said, gee, why didn't it just assume that I wanted to in fact treat these as strings, and combine them together?

现在，你们可能会认为，伊，为什么Python不假设,我实际上想把这些对象当做字符串一样对待，然后把它们组合到一起呢？

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